Even the two feature-length documentary films by James Blue take as their subjects Houston's housing crisis in the 1970s rather than Buffalo's own broken downtown and ethnic strife.
To nab other unsuspecting interviews, Baron Cohen's production company had reportedly set up four "shell companies" with LA addresses and phone numbers, including Amesbury Chase, Chromium Films, Cold Stream Productions and Coral Blue Productions.
Since appearing in Donmar productions Othello and Ivanov in 2008, Hiddleston has gone on to achieve international fame in films such as The Avengers, Thor, The Deep Blue Sea, War Horse and Midnight in Paris.
Mr Vlahos was not the first to use a blue-screens - earlier versions of the technique can be seen in films including The Thief of Bagdad, and The Ten Commandments.